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...Army seems more haunted by the prospect of leaks from the aging arsenal. The first mainland incinerator was rushed into construction in 1989 with only 60% of the blueprint complete. Located in Tooele, Utah, home of the nation's largest chemical stockpile, the facility was built by EG&G Defense Materials Inc., under contract to the Army. But Utah residents are wary of the military after the atomic-testing scandal of the 1950s. "The firebricks blew up in the kiln at Johnston," says Steve Jones, a safety inspector who was fired by EG&G in 1994, after just three months...
...workers who service life-support and mechanical systems still on strike, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration vowed to launch the space shuttle Columbia on time Friday at 12:43 EDT. The strikers-- who watched scab workers file in today--walked out Tuesday because of a beef with EG&G Florida Inc., which holds NASA's $1.9 million base-operations contract.parpar
...Fiedler might have trouble doing the commercials. He does not fit the swaggering, "God I'm good" stereotype of typical college phenoms (eg. Princeton tailback Keith Elias). When he says, "I don't really have an ego. I just want the team to win," you sense that he really believes...
...beating hasn't stopped. Last December the Department of Energy announced the closure of the EG&G Mound Applied Technologies nuclear-weapons facility in Miamisburg (pop. 18,000), which employs 1,600 and pumps millions into the community. In January USAir closed most of its hub at Dayton International Airport. Heavy dependence on the auto industry gives residents the jitters: with eight plants employing about 20,000 workers, Montgomery County has the largest concentration of domestic GM jobs outside Michigan...
...spokesman for EG&G's Nevada subsidiary denied that either MIT or the parent company were involved in the labor dispute. "EG&G is not involved with this strike, it is entirely REECO's affair, we are dealing with this completely ourselves," said Steve Leon, public information officer for REECO...